Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many men owe him much. He has spent his years giving help, not asking favors. About the only thing he ever asked was to be named for Vice President in 1920. He was hurt when his friends replied then with a mere gesture. Hence his "no stalking horse" proviso this time...
...Passed the McFadden national bank bill, after rejecting the Hull amendment, with the Senate's proviso permitting national bank branches in cities larger than...
...been blind for a year in 1908, how Christ and a famous German surgeon had brought back his sight. "I don't want people to think I've got all the money in God's earth," he said. President Fletcher took the donation, with a proviso-$40,000 would go for endowment, $60,000 toward the new dormitory. Another $40,000 for the dormintory would come from friends...
...board of awards observed this proviso, the Rollo Books might, be more eligible than anything produced by Mr. Lewis. There was at least a 50:50 chance, his defenders claimed, that he had been quite honest. He is a man without taste; that was clearly demonstrated when he recently invited God to strike him dead in Kansas City (TIME, May 3). But his books have shown just as clearly that he is neither a stupid man nor a poseur. Whether, this time, he were sincere or not, nobody could decide, but everyone said something or other...
After interminable wrangling, all the original features of this article were amended out of existence and a new idea finally adopted in the form of an amendment. This passed by a vote of 285 to 282, and consisted of a proviso that French income tax returns are hereafter to be made public in substantially the same way that they are now made available...